Marjan Ajevski

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Marjan Ajevski received his LL.B. in law from the Faculty of Law "Iustinianus Primus", University of Ss. "Cyril and Methodius" in Skopje, the Republic of Macedonia in 2004. He finished his LL.M. at the Central European University in Budapest at the Legal Studies Department in 2007. He was thereupon admitted to the S.J.D. program of CEU Legal Studies Department. Marjan is currently working on his dissertation under the supervision of Professor Károly Bárd.

Marjan's areas of interest are public international law, international relations, international criminal law and criminal justice.

In his doctoral research Marjan focuses on the development of international criminal law, and on international criminal courts as law-makers. The research focuses on the role of international criminal courts in the law-making process within international law, how they change and modify international law and, particularly, international criminal law. Marjan also explores the responses governments give to these changes and examines whether they are acceptable or not. He further explores the issue of where decisions of international criminal courts, and international courts in general, fit in the Article 38 sources of the Statute of the International Court of Justice and whether they are something more than just "subsidiary" sources of law.

Dinara Asanbaeva

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Dinara Asanbaeva received her degree of Specialist in Civil Law from the Russian-Slavic University in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan in 2002. After graduation Dinara stayed at the KRSU as a teaching assistant at the department of civil law and taught tutorials for undergraduate students in civil law and contract law during the 2002-2003 academic year. In 2003-2005 she obtained LL.M in Law from the Edinburgh University, Scotland, UK. Her LL.M studies were focused on international commercial law, contract law and law of obligations. Her LL.M thesis was on the topic of money laundering regulations in the UK, France, and Germany. In 2005-2009 Dinara worked for the Organization of Security and Cooperation in Europe’s (OSCE) educational project in Bishkek, the OSCE Academy, as a project coordinator.

In 2009 Dinara was admitted to the S.J.D. program of the CEU Legal Studies Department. She is currently working on her dissertation under the supervision of Professor Tibor Tajti. The focus of her research is corporate corruption. She examines the limits of law in fighting corporate corruption from a comparative perspective.

Mariana Chicu

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Mariana Chicu received her LL.B. from Moldova State University in 2004 and an LL.M. in Human Rights from CEU Legal Studies in 2005. In Moldova she worked as a National Trainer for lawyers in the area of the European Convention for Human Rights, a programme of the Council of Europe. At the same time she was also a lecturer of Public International Law at the University of European Studies of Moldova (Chisinau, Moldova). In 2006 she was admitted to the S.J.D. program of CEU Legal Studies.

Mariana's current S.J.D. project concentrates on a complex range of issues related to legal aid in non-criminal matters. The research is an attempt to outline in a tentative fashion the range of justifications and rationales that permit to elevate it at the level of a normative. The empirical part of the research will consist of a detailed analysis and evaluation of the current practice of legal aid in non-criminal matters in Romania, Bulgaria, the Republic of Moldova and Georgia. The analysis will then explore whether the status quo lives up to relevant international standards. The dissertation is supervised by Professor Jeremy McBride.

Dalma Demeter

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Dalma Demeter received a joint law degree from the 'Dimitrie Cantemir' and the 'Babes-Bolyai' Universities from Cluj-Napoca, Romania, in 1997. In 2004 she received her LL.M. in International Business Law from CEU Legal Studies, and in 2006 she enrolled to the S.J.D. program of the same.

Dalma's research interest is in the area of international business law, with focus on international commercial arbitration. She is currently working on a comparative analysis of the different sources of norms regulating international commercial arbitration. Her research aims to identify the potential conflicts between these norms and their possible negative consequences, as well as to offer a solution by establishing a clear hierarchy between all the applicable laws, regulations, rules, international conventions and party stipulation, that affect international arbitral proceedings.

Besides her permanent activities of legal research for professional books and articles, and assisting in cases of international arbitration, Dalma is also actively involved in the academic activities at the CEU Legal Studies Department, participating in preparing and teaching various course units and in coaching the CEU team for the Arbitration Moot.

The numerous diplomas and certificates she obtained during the past years, as well as the research periods spent at prestigious international institutions, together with the participation to various professional training programs, all serve the purpose of building up a strong career combining professional practice with research and teaching in higher education, with specialization in international business law, and special focus on international commercial arbitration.

Ecaterina Erjiu

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Ecaterina Erjiu obtained her Licentiate of Law Diploma (with Governmental Distinction) from Moldova State University in 2004. In 2005 she obtained her first LLM degree from the same university. In 2004-2006 Ecaterina worked as lecture at the Law Faculty of Moldova State University, Chair of Criminal Procedure Law and Criminalistics. Ecaterina was teaching Criminal Procedure Law and Judicial Ethics. During her studies and teaching Ecaterina published several articles concerning the adversarial principle and fair trial rights. She is a co-author of the first edition of the official commentary to the new Moldovan Code of Criminal Procedure (2005). In 2006 she was awarded the E. Muskie Graduate Fellowship (program of the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs of the United States Department of State) and went for her second LLM at Saint Louis University Law School in Saint Louis, Missouri, USA. During her LL.M. studies the areas of Ecaterina’s specific research interest were the adversarial principle and its enforcement in both civil and common law criminal justice systems. In 2007-2008 Ecaterina continued teaching at Moldova State University and also worked as a legal counselor at the Department of the Governmental Agent within the Ministry of Justice of Republic of Moldova. In 2008 Ecaterina was admitted to the Comparative Constitutional Law S.J.D. program of the Legal Studies Department of Central European University.

Arnisa Gorezi

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Arnisa Gorezi received her LL.B. from the University of Tirana in 2006. She was awarded Highest National Honor Award by the then Minister of Education of the Republic of Albania and the Rector of the University of Tirana for excellent academic performance. Afterwards, she received her LL.M. in International Business Law from CEU Legal Studies in 2007 and was then admitted to the S.J.D. program of CEU Legal Studies in the same year.

Her research interests include company law and corporate governance problems of shareholders' protection and directors' liabilities, corporate social responsibility and capital market participation of companies.

Arnisa's dissertation concentrates on a comparative study of key legal aspects of corporate governance in Germany, the Czech Republic and Romania. The main intent of the research is to propose an adequate approach of corporate governance modernization in the Central Eastern European jurisdictions which is not a mere importation of the German or American model, but is also responsive to their local characteristics significantly shaped by the post-privatization process and weak law enforcement. The project will try to explore whether to suggest employing the "comply-or-explain" principle coupled with more capital market and business incentives for conforming companies.

Some of Arnisa's accepted and working papers can be found at: http://ssrn.com/author=668703, http://ssrn.com/abstract=1258095 and http://ssrn.com/abstract=1258202. Arnisa has also co-authored Enforcement of Contracts in Albania: Overcoming Dilemmas in an Emerging Democracy, (Bashari & Gorezi), and contributed a chapter in Messmann & Tajti (eds.): Enforcement of Contracts in Central Eastern Europe.

Leonila Guglya

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Leonila Guglya received her LL.B. and a Specialist graduate Degree in Law from the National University of "Kyiv-Mohyla Academy" in Kyiv, Ukraine. In the course of her undergraduate studies, she participated in the Freedom Support Act Undergraduate Program of the US Department of State, under the auspices of which she has been a non-degree visiting student in political science - pre-law in the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse for the academic year 2002/03 and was interning with Bosshard & Associates and Ablan local law firms. Subsequently, she was working for the banking and finance practice group in Baker &McKenzie CIS limited law firm in Kyiv, and practiced law in Ukraine as an in-house lawyer. In 2006 Leonila Guglya received her LL.M. degree in International Business Law and was admitted to the S.J.D. Program in International Business Law in the Central European University.

Her doctoral thesis, supervised by Professor Tibor Várady, is entitled 'Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards under the Article V(1) of the New York Convention with the special emphasis on Ukraine, Russia and Belarus'. It focuses on the peculiarities of the enforcement phase of the international commercial arbitration in the CIS region assessed on the basis of both the legislative review and case law analysis and is aimed at demonstrating the interpretations New York Convention receives in local courts and developing ways for the harmonization thereof, both on the regional and global levels. In fall 2007 Leonila Guglya visited Cornell Law School as Berger International Legal Studies Program Visiting Scholar and continued her research under the supervision of Professor John Barcelo.

In addition to research, Leonila Guglya is a coach of the Central European University's teams for the International Commercial Arbitration Moot in Vienna, Austria, and serves as an arbitrator for written and oral phases of the competition. She has published on issues of international commercial arbitration, commercial law developments in Ukraine and legal teaching methodology. In summer 2008, following her strong interest in international trade law and arbitration, Leonila Guglya was interning with the ICC Court of Arbitration.

Asim Jusic

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Asim Jusic is an SJD candidate in Comparative Constitutional Law at Central European University, Budapest. He received his LL.B. degree from the University of Sarajevo, an MA in American Studies at the University of Heidelberg, and LL.M. degree in Comparative Constitutional Law from Central European University, Budapest. Prior to his doctoral studies at CEU, he worked in a private legal practice and was a consultant for the World Bank and America’s Development Foundation, and a project coordinator at the World University Service Bosnia and Herzegovina. His research interests include comparative and international law, law and economics, law and religion and legal theory.

Oleksiy Kononov

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Oleksiy Kononov received his Specialist degree in Law from Donetsk National University, Donetsk, Ukraine, in 2003. He also received his LL.M. degree in International Business Law from Central European University, Budapest, Hungary, in 2007. In 2000 - 2006 Oleksiy practiced law in Ukraine as an in-house lawyer, independent legal counsels, and a lawyer in a law firm. His legal practice included corporate law, contracts, foreign trade, and labor law issues.

Oleksiy's areas of interest are foreign investment, foreign trade, contract law, and corporate law.

Oleksiy's current S.J.D. research supervised by Prof. Stefan Messmann is concerned with foreign direct investment (FDI) structured as a comparative legal analysis of the FDI legal framework in Bulgaria, Germany, and Ukraine. The purpose of the comparison is to determine what should be changed in Ukrainian law to attract more FDI to the country based on the German and Bulgarian experience. His research focuses not only on legal transplants, but as well on historical, political, and economic conditions in the countries of comparison.

Some of Oleksiy's publications can be accessed at:
- http://justinian.com.ua/article.php?id=1507,
- http://justinian.com.ua/article.php?id=1817 (in Ukrainian),
- http://www.ujbl.info (website of Ukrainian Journal of Business Law) (in English, subject to subscription).
Oleksiy is also a co-author of Enforcement of Contracts in Ukraine (Guglya & Kononov), and Enforcement of Contracts in Russia (Guseva & Kononov), chapters in the book of Messmann & Tajti (eds.): Enforcement of Contracts in Central and Eastern Europe.

Vasily Lukashevich

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Vasily Lukashevich received his first law degree (specialist diploma) in 2005 from Altai State University (Russia) and obtained an LL.M. in comparative constitutional law from CEU in 2006. In 2007 he was admitted to the S.J.D. program of CEU Legal Studies Department. During his academic engagements at CEU he obtained fellowships to conduct research at the law faculties of the University of Toronto, University of Utrecht, University of Maastricht and University of Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne.

His interests are in constitutional law and comparative public law with particular accents on separation of powers, executive domination, constitutional review, and transnational judicial interaction. His teaching experience (independent and assistantship) includes graduate level courses in various topics of comparative constitutionalism.

The title of Vasily's dissertation project is "Independent agencies within separated powers: Challenges of the institutional design". The research is premised on reflective separation of powers analysis of the operation of independent administrative agencies. A critique of existing academic accounts justifying this regulatory model and evaluation of agencies' contribution to efficient, legitimate, and transparent governance is at the center of the project. Legal and institutional analysis in the dissertation is enriched by political, social, and organizational management considerations. Evidence drawn from a number of jurisdictions (including the US, EU, UK, and France. Vasily's work aspires to identify and develop principles which may inform reforms of existing institutional arrangements and strengthen democratic good governance.

Orsolya Salát

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Orsolya Salát earned a ‘Diplôme d’université de droit français et européen’ of the Université Panthéon-Assas (Paris II) in 2003. She received her law degree in 2004 from the Law Faculty of Eotvos Lorand University, Budapest. She holds an LL.M. from the Universität Heidelberg (2004-2005) and another LL.M. in Comparative Constitutional Law from CEU obtained in 2006. In 2006 she started her doctoral studies at CEU Legal Studies Department under the supervision of Professor András Sajó.

Orsolya mostly deals with comparative constitutional law, but her research also touches upon questions of political philosophy and political science. In her dissertation, she writes about the constitutional protection of freedom of assembly and protest. She analyses the state of the law in five jurisdictions, including France, Germany, U.K., U.S. and the European Convention on Human Rights. Apart from a comparative analysis she strives to theorize possible foundations for freedom of assembly. For this, she explores extensively the fields of social movements, mass psychology and political philosophy (democratic theories, theories of constituent power).

Živilė Stubrytė

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Živilė Stubrytė received her Master at Law degree from Mykolas Romeris University, Lithuania in 2007 and LL.M in Comparative Constitutional Law from Central European University in 2008. In the course of her LL.M studies she was awarded a grant to conduct research at Law School, Columbia University, New York, US . Hereafter she was admitted to the SJD program in Legal Studies Department at Central European University. In summer 2008 Živilė participated in Annenberg-Oxford Summer Institute on Global Media Policy: Technology and New Themes in Media Regulation.

Živilė gained legal practice while working as a lawyer at the Legal Department of Communications Regulatory Authority, Vilnius, Lithuania as well as through traineeship at European Centre of Tort and Insurance Law, Vienna, Austria.

Živilė’s areas of interest include comparative constitutional law, communications law and policy; her thesis project concentrates on citizens’ participation in government policy-making and decision-making in representative democracies.

Svetlana Tyulkina

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Svetlana Tyulkina received her Specialist Graduate Degree in Law from the Law School of Mari State University, Russian Federation in 2004. In the course of her undergraduate studies she participated in the ERLAWS Program supported by the COLPI (now: OSI). During this program she has been a non-degree student for 2002/03 at the CEU Department of Legal Studies. Since 2003 she was working as a lawyer in private law firm in her home town Yoshkar-Ola and was involved in working on different legal issues mainly in civil and administrative law sphere. Svetlana completed her LL.M. Degree in Comparative Constitutional Law (with additional specialization in the EU Law) in June 2006 and continued her education in the Law School of Monash University (Australia) as a participant of Double Masters Exchange Program. In 2007 Svetlana was admitted to the S.J.D. in CCL program of CEU Legal Studies.

Svetlana's areas of interest are political participation rights, regulation of political parties' activities at the domestic and international levels and the limitation of political rights in the light of anti-terrorism legislation. Currently she is working on dissertation under the supervision of Professor Renata Uitz. Her doctoral research focuses on the concept of militant democracy. She attempts to widen the area of the application of the doctrine and argues for possible application of the logic of militant democracy beyond its traditional boundaries. Svetlana claims that the war on terror and problems with existing and developing religious fundamentalist movements could be properly addressed within the conceptual framework of militant democracy.

Davit Zedelashvili

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Davit Zedelashvili obtained his LL.B. from Law Faculty of Tbilisi State University, Georgia in 2007. In 2005 -2006 Davit did 3 month internship in the Clinic of his law school at Legal Committee of Georgian Parliament, dealing with analysis of legislative drafts. At the same time he actively participated in various national and international moot court and other legal competitions (Phillip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition, Jean Pictet Competition in International Humanitarian Law and etc.) Davit’s research activities and publications (in Georgian) of this period covered diverse issues of public international law, comparative criminal procedure and organization of judiciary. In the final years of his Bachelor’s studies Davit had simultaneously served as a legal advisor at the Legal Department of the Office of the Prosecutor General of Georgia where his responsibilities mainly involved research and analysis in the field of public international law, specifically in international human rights, humanitarian and criminal law.
In 2008 he obtained an LL.M. in Human Rights at the Legal Studies Department of Central European University and was admitted to the Comparative Constitutional Law S.J.D. program. During his LL.M. studies the areas of Davit’s specific research interest were Freedom of Speech and Religion, their interrelation in constitutional democratic politics and religion in the public sphere.
Davit’s doctoral project supervised by Professor Renáta Uitz, intends to examine executive discretion and its relation to liberty. Taming discretion for the preservation of liberty generates tensions of such scale that touch to the heart of legal and constitutional theory and political philosophy. But apart from this it is a highly practical problem requiring daily resolution in the routine operation of the executive. How the resulting solutions inform/affect the theoretical debate and vice versa is an open end question of this research project.